From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:43:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080628114337.GA3489@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486572BC.9070201@gmail.com>
Lea Wiemann, Sat, Jun 28, 2008 01:07:40 +0200:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> It is still possible to connect to older remote end with new clients, but
>> you have to explicitly ask for "git-upload-pack" by using --upload-pack=
>> option when running "git fetch"
>
> Now that the current git won't work with older servers anyway, what
> about using this opportunity to add a 'version' command to the server?
> With such a command, such problems would seem to be quite easily
> avoidable in the future, since the client can discriminate based on the
> server's version.
And exactly how are the incompatibility problems avoided? By denying
the service if the versions don't match?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-28 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 22:08 git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 22:14 ` git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 23:07 ` Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org) Lea Wiemann
2008-06-27 23:15 ` Adding a 'version' command to the server Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 23:19 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-28 11:43 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-06-28 12:25 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-29 4:08 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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